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May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.
May 19, 1928: The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.
May 19, 1935: British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
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May 18, 1896: The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."
May 18, 1953: Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
May 18, 1974: India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.
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May 17, 1875: The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.
May 17, 1938: NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.
May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.
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May 16, 1770: Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France.
May 16, 1929: The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.
May 16, 1946: The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway.
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May 15, 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
May 15, 1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
May 15, 1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
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May 14, 1904: The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 14, 1948: British rule in Palestine came to an end as The Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel. Within hours, Israel was under attack from Arab forces.
May 14, 1955: The Warsaw Pact was signed by the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries. It finally dissolved in 1991.
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May 13, 1938: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
May 13, 1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.
May 13, 1568: Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.
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May 12, 1870: Manitoba became a province of Canada.
May 12, 1937: Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
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